Simran Tinani

A catalogue of selected books I've read, loosely grouped by theme, and ordered alphabetically by author names. I put this together mainly as a way to keep a record of the books that left some mark on me. It is not a complete list, but rather what I could recall and chose to share publicly.

Fiction (38)
  • Murder on the Orient Express — Agatha Christie
  • And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie
  • N or M? — Agatha Christie
  • Hercule Poirot's Christmas — Agatha Christie
  • A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
  • Hard Times — Charles Dickens
  • Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway
  • The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez
  • Silas Marner — George Eliot
  • Animal Farm — George Orwell
  • The Road to Wigan Pier — George Orwell
  • The Invisible Man — H. G. Wells
  • The Odyssey — Homer
  • Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev
  • Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
  • Emma — Jane Austen
  • Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen
  • Mansfield Park — Jane Austen
  • Persuasion — Jane Austen
  • Lady Susan — Jane Austen
  • Three Plays (Altona/Men without Shadows/The Flies) — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
  • War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
  • Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy
  • Kholstomer (Strider): The Story of a Horse — Leo Tolstoy
  • Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
  • How Right You Are, Jeeves — P. G. Wodehouse
  • Jeeves in the Offing — P. G. Wodehouse
  • Uncle Fred: An Omnibus — P. G. Wodehouse
  • Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy
  • Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia Woolf
  • A Room of One’s Own — Virginia Woolf
  • The Voyage Out — Virginia Woolf
  • Romeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare
(Popular) Science (12)
  • Dopamine Nation — Anna Lembke
  • The Intelligence Trap — David Robson
  • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? — Frans de Waal
  • The Psychopath Inside — James Fallon
  • You Are Not Your Brain — Jeffrey Schwartz & Rebecca Gladding
  • The Emotional Lives of Animals — Marc Bekoff
  • Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us — Michael Moss
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat — Oliver Sacks
  • The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
  • Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human — Richard Wrangham
  • Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us — Robert D. Hare
  • The Moral Animal — Robert Wright
Well-Being & Personal Psychology (29)
  • The Drama of the Gifted Child — Alice Miller
  • Attached — Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
  • Solitude: A Return to the Self — Anthony Storr
  • The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
  • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World — Cal Newport
  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business — Charles Duhigg
  • The Power of Unwavering Focus — Dandapani
  • The Pleasure Trap — Douglas Lisle & Alan Goldhamer
  • The Highly Sensitive Person — Elaine Aron
  • Intuitive Eating — Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch
  • When the Body Says No — Gabor Maté
  • The Courage to Be Disliked — Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
  • Hello Sleep: The Science and Art of Overcoming Insomnia Without Medications — Jade Wu
  • Atomic Habits — James Clear
  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy — Jenny Odell
  • The Starch Solution — John McDougall
  • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? — Julie Smith
  • Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself — Kristin Neff
  • Codependent No More — Melody Beattie
  • The Surrender Experiment — Michael A. Singer
  • How Not to Die(t) — Michael Greger
  • Facing Codependence — Pia Mellody
  • No Bad Parts — Richard Schwartz
  • The Effortless Sleep Method — Sasha Stephens
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen R. Covey
  • Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness — Susan L. Smalley & Diana Winston
  • The China Study — T. Colin Campbell
  • Radical Acceptance — Tara Brach
  • The Sleep Solution — W. Chris Winter
Social Science & Interpersonal Psychology (17)
  • Orientalism — Edward Said
  • Suicide: A Study in Sociology — Émile Durkheim
  • Suicide: A Study in Sociology — Émile Durkheim
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Economics in One Lesson — Henry Hazlitt
  • Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism — Ibn Warraq
  • Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir — Irvin D. Yalom
  • The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt
  • The Coddling of the American Mind — Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff
  • Animals and Society — Margo DeMello
  • Beyond Beliefs — Melanie Joy
  • Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows — Melanie Joy
  • Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work — Paul Babiak & Robert Hare
  • Freakonomics — Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
  • Woke: A Guide to Social Justice — Titania McGrath
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — William L. Shirer
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
Childhood Favourites (12)
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona — A. J. Cronin
  • The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank
  • Nancy Drew Series — Carolyn Keene
  • The Famous Five Series — Enid Blyton
  • The Secret Seven Series — Enid Blyton
  • The Hardy Boys Series — Franklin W. Dixon
  • The Necklace — Guy de Maupassant
  • The Story of My Life — Helen Keller
  • The Fun They Had — Isaac Asimov
  • Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture — Jerome K. Jerome
  • The Bishop’s Candlesticks — Norman McKinnell
  • Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare